The Department of Health (DOH) logged 8,027 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Saturday, June 12. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) The figure reported was the highest daily rise since May 28. The country's COVID-19 tally climbed to 1,308,252. Of the total figure, 4.6 percent or 60,341 were...
Areas with high numbers of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases will get additional vaccine allocations, the Department of Health (DOH) said Saturday, June 12. (Photo from National Task Force Against COVID-19) DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said 60 percent of vaccines that arrived last...
Manila Bulletin File Photo The Department of Health (DOH) said that it aims at achieving “population protection” in the National Capital Region (NCR) Plus 8 by the end of this year. DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said, however, that this goal still depends on the country’s vaccine...
A health worker prepares to administer Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination site in Parañaque City on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Department of Health (DOH) said it is "open" on the idea of holding clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines on Filipino children. Health...
DOH/MB A total of 337 donated respirators were already distributed to government and private hospitals, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday, June 11. The DOH also said that 63 remaining respirators are now “ready to be deployed” in areas that are currently experiencing a spike in...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) reports additional 6,686 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, while close to 200 people were confirmed to have died due to the viral illness on Friday, June 11. The new infections raised the country’s total to 1,300,349. Of the total figure, 4.7 percent...
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Department of Health (DOH) appealed to the public not to lie about their health condition for them to immediately get vaccinated against coronavirus disease...
DOH/MB Hospitals in Visayas and Mindanao were asked to increase their bed capacity for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients amid the spike in virus infections, an official of the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday, June 11. DOH Undersecretary Abdullah Dumama said public hospitals were...
World Health Organization logo Health authorities announced the end of the polio outbreak in the Philippines two years after the crippling disease was once again detected in the country. The announcement was made by both the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund...
A senior citizen receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Angono, Rizal. (Angono Public Information Office) Fully vaccinated senior citizens should still strictly adhere to the health protocols after the government has allowed those under general community quarantine (GCQ) and modified GCQ to leave their...
Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. (Luis Acosta / File photo / AFP ) The Philippines received on Thursday night, June 10, a total of 2.28 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine through the World Health Organization (WHO)-led COVAX facility. The vaccines will be administered to those...
Known for his distrust of the media, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Thursday apologized to a Manila-based newspaper for undermining the veracity of its report on the 370 respirators which were left rotting at the warehouse of the Department of Health (DOH) in the middle of the...
